The Registrar's Responsibility Centre (RC)​ ensures that critical processes are sustained to comply with a range of statutory and contractual requirements while providing professional and service-orientated academic administration, student support, governance support, and legal services to the university's internal and external stakeholders.​

The RC consists of the following environments:

• Governance, Ethics and Compliance
• Legal Services
• Applications, Student Accommodation and Client Services
• Student Information System Support
• Academic Administration (Stellenbosch and Bellville Park campuses)
• Academic Administration (Tygerberg campus)